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Book Review


Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment. By Brian Masaru Hayashi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xx, 319 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-00945-7.)
Brian Masaru Hayashi's study defies easy assessment. To be sure, this fresh and far-reaching interpretation of the World War II Japanese American exclusion and detention experience achieves benchmark historiographical status, which is chiefly due to the author's enlarged conceptual framework, resourceful lines of inquiry, and exhaustive archival research. But although a robustly original book, Democratizing the Enemy loses a small measure of its luster when its empirical performance is set against its lofty promise. . . .
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